Thanks Kim this helps I am going to share this idea with my principal. I appreciate the insider view. I can't believe that your paper wouldn't cover this boo hoo is right and shame on them. I bet if your test scores jumped up or down they'd be there right? I love the idea and I'll let you know if we make it work. Thanks again, Susan
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:56 PM, kim lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Susan, We did not put anything on the school site since we spent all our > time making the project work. We did send out news/press releases and did > not get any action from our Grand Rapids Press or others. Boo hoo. > > Also some students helped me create a display of our activities which we > took to our local library. Then we took a similar one to an independent > library in the inner city along with maps of Michigan and four copies of > the > book for their use. > > I did write a grant to our Service Learning program which funded some of it > and then our district Title monies bought copies of the book. We even > bought > small books from the Mackinac Island school to give to our families so they > would have insider knowledge of life on the island as they solved the > mystery through reading. > > We learned that we need to shorten up the time frame from two months to > just > one. Our kick off for last year was an author /illustrator from Michigan > who > does books using Michigan as the setting. He came to our school and > presented his work. This was funded by monies for career education. > > This year we are having a magician and want to call the event - Discovering > the Magic of Learning. We hope to create some kind of tee shirt with this > theme logo as a fundraiser too. > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Susan Cronk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kim this sounds like an awesome idea. Do you have a link to your school > to > > show some of what you all did? I love this idea. > > susan > > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:44 PM, kim lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Last year our second - fifth grade school did a book for all families > > > to read. It was the Mystery on Mackinac Island. We had many activites > > > including a film and fudge night with a sing along. We did this in > > > part to encourage all our families to read at home. March is reading > > > month in the state of Michigan so we culminated this project with an > > > open house. Familes came to school again to see our writing displays, > > > art displays and to enjoy an ice cream social. > > > > > > We are looking for a title for our next book. Someone suggested the > > > Zack File books since they are exciting and easy to read. Does anyone > > > know these books or have a different suggestion? Thanks for your > > > thoughts. > > > > > > Kim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mosaic mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > > > > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > > > > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mosaic mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
